# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S108
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108 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

necessary to engage theological students without teaching experi-

ence to serve as instructors for periods of one year, with consequent

loss in the preparation of our future pastors. We therefore request

Synod for permission to call an additional professor to teach
; academic subjects in the high school.

4, Professor of Physical Education

In the training of our future pastors, physical education has
a vital place. At Bronxville we have never had a regular professor
who had been called for the specific purpose of teaching the courses
and directing the program of physical education, but have had to
rely upon various members of our staff, already carrying heavy
teaching loads, to assume these additional tasks. We believe the
matter of physical education is of such importance in the prepara-
tion of the future servants of our churches that it warrants the
calling of a qualified man for the position of Director of Physical
Education, and we herewith petition Synod for permission to call
such a man.

5. Additional Residences for Professors

We are badly in need of a number of additional residences
for our professors. At the present time two of our professors are
living off the campus, one of them at considerable distance from
the school. Should Synod grant us permission to call the two new
professors as requested above, the situation will be still more dif-
ficult. We therefore petition Synod to grant us three new pro-
fessors’ residences, to be erected on our campus, similar in size
and quality of construction to the present residences on Faculty
Row, at an estimated cost of approximately $18,000 each.

6. Renovation of Sieker Hall

Since its erection in 1925, Sieker Hall, our dormitory for college
men, has never been given a thorough interior renovation. It is
now vitally in need of such renovation in order to restore the walls,
floors, and woodwork of the halls and rooms into suitable living
quarters for our students. Our Board herewith petitions Synod
for an appropriation of $20,000 to undertake this necessary work.

7. Lights Along Faculty Row

At present there are no street lights along Faculty Row. This
| creates an unnecessary hazard of personal injury to the families of
our faculty, members of our student body, and to many persons who
visit our school for public events, inasmuch as Faculty Row also
serves as main passage way to our gymansium. We therefore
herewith petition Synod for permission to install a sufficient num-
ber of street lights along Faculty Row, at an estimated cost of
$2,000.